free. free. food free brokers videos for your media project free media down to r.t. dot com. tonight surpassing your plane overshoots the runway and crashes into the side of one of moscow's main highways the details ahead. there are a very good evening show if you're just joining us nine pm moscow time now i'm kevin now in one story dominating this hour a passenger plane as overshot the runway at moscow's look at the airport earlier on it claimed at least four lives only eight people all the crew members were on board that jet which can carry capacity two hundred passengers russian airliner plowed

into the side of a major highway heading out of moscow these are images from the sea most of them taken from social networks which were the first to provide footage from the crash site people passing by on the highway help the injured from the crash waiting with them for the emergency services to arrive we'll be bringing you eyewitness accounts over the next few minutes of course but first of all let's bring you more of the details as we know them urgency crews finished their search for the site no way here the red wings' flight from the czech republic overshot the runway at the city's vnukovo airport four thirty five pm local time all four survivors are in a serious condition with head injuries that is rare for national just now life for . bring us up to date up to speed what's happening at the airport right now first of all. well the nuclear airport right now is operating according to its normal sched your flights that have been delayed are

departing from here and flies that are expected to land here are right now landing here sure there is only one runway here at the local airport it's been closed clearly for immediately after the incident happened but to two hours later it's been opened and as i just sat in the right now the airport is operating normally the route of course for more people than usually here it's quite crowded because people of the delayed plays a role so here but we're hearing that they're provided with food and water and also some of them those who need are provided with hotel here at the airport give us more but grant if you will that on what actually happened take us through the events of four thirty today. what we've been hearing conflicting reports on exactly how many people have been onboard the crashed plane but now it's confirmed that there were only eight people on board the

t.-u. two all four airliner and all of them were crew members and so far we know and it's already been confirmed by the interior ministry that four of them died and we know that monday were the captain of the flight mechanic or the second pilot and to the twenty eight year old the girl the flight attendant also died four others have been taken immediately to the hospital here in moscow and three of them right now are in a very hard situation and one of the victims there is in a critical condition actually in the investigation is going on right now but it's. actually it's pretty much clear what happened the. airliner kit kill rear door of the runway at the local airport while landing and crashed

into one of the city's highways broke into three pieces caught fire emergency teams and firemen and policemen ambulances have been very quick to the scene and three say that that was one of the reasons why four of eight people on board have been saved as for the year. the the itinerary or there was a as you just had to be the flight from the czech republic to moscow and as for the air company it was red wings a russian charter company that is usually carrying tori's to different parts of the globe and it's yet to be investigated why these time the plane was almost empty but actually we can say that fortunately was empty because of course the plane is

designed to carry at least two hundred people and of course see if full this catastrophe this to this tragedy would have been. mauled fatal of course room for marshall thanks for your service though which you know there from from the crew. no eyewitness. told us that passers by were caught up in that accident helping the people on the plane while they were waiting for the emergency crews. i saw one woman all covered in blood it was the flight attendant christina she said that the plane overshot the runway but they weren't carrying any passengers and that there is another surviving flight attendant there the rescue unit came very fast but the ambulance couldn't get through because of the traffic so we gave the injured flight attendant first aid to our best knowledge called her mother to tell her she is ok that a woman blankets and clothing we could find and even found

a car to take her to hospital another eyewitness the crash landing saw the plane fall apart before helping one of the injured this is what he told us. i was driving along the highway toward small school when i saw the accident with my own eyes at the end of the runway there's a seventy metre long trench that separates the runway from the more scrutiny of highway so the plane overshot the runway and hit the drink with its nose and the news broke off approximately the place where they have business class and there was one person who dropped out of the plane onto the most cookie of highway and the front wheel also broke off we helped to carry one injured we caught the tanks with the help of the police asked the people to leave it then we put this person in the camp which took him to the hospital. but until know the to pull off to a four model a plane that has her little history of accidents are. told me more though about the model of the airline or the company that owns it. this is the first incident

involving the triple of two or four blind where people died so the first fatal incident involving this plane only once only on one occasion this plane which was designed back in the eighty's and has been in operation for a little more than a decade only once has been actual incident two years ago it had a crash landing nobody was killed only a few were minor injuries were reported back then so this is the first time something like this happened it is generally considered considered to be a very reliable plane it carries more than two hundred passengers very widely used for charity flights of russian tourists all major holiday destinations the company itself is a charter company called the red wings it's owned by alexander the liberty of russian billionaire who is a very prominent figure in trying to run for mayor as office several years ago he also owns several british newspapers. including the evening standard so generally it's been a very good company i've used them couple of times and you know i've never thought

they would actually have an incident something like that and their safety record speaks for itself they never had an incident of any kind before so this is the first time they've had anything like that. because more expert analysis on what is david operations and safety editor from flight global magazine evening it's early days here of course but the question always asked in these kind of accident is what could have gone so badly wrong any initial thoughts. it's a bit difficult and we can see what the result was basically the aircrafts ran over the end of the runway what caused it to break up as one of your eye witnesses actually accurately said is that there's quite a large dick she looks like it's you know a storm drain to me probably collecting more from the runway and from the road and when the aircraft hit this very deep dish it out to really broke up so it must have

been going and and of course there were fatalities at that time so the impact must have been pretty severe as before the aircraft was still going very fast when it went over the end of the runway and we can only speculate as to how that might have been so i suppose it also raises the question about having things like digits like roads in the end the runways maybe there should be some extra run on space but of course a lot of airports are designed like that are they this plane was only four years old it was a modern generation russian airliner topalov t u two and four course the nato pull of synonymous with the older style planes that the one five forms that until recently were the work causes of the russian airlines that have anything in common . no they don't really have anything in common you know we're talking the t one five four series really was in one nine hundred sixty s. design and although the later the later built one five fours were very much updated in their engines and in their cockpits fundamentally the

design is the only one and this one is a current generation it's not absolutely the latest generation but but given that it was built on this particular aircraft was built only a few years ago certainly it's a very modern airplane and it does have an absolutely first class. history a technical history and would have been. built aircraft do whatever be the same sort of safety standards as say the airbus a three twenty fleet a three twenty one fully or the boeing seven three seven fleet is in the same kind of thing. well certainly i mean statistics can be notoriously fickle because of course the airbus a three twenty fleet is is a very very big one far far bigger than the number of two you two to you two or fours and therefore it's a little bit difficult to compare them but certainly. as was accurately stated this is the first fatal accident that not i think you would go with regard safety

appliances on board is the same kind of thing is it up to the standard of boeing's and airbuses. oh yes it is there's no question about it this is you know russian the latest russian built airplanes over russia is one of the most mature companies in the world in terms of aerospace design and construction and there's nothing wrong with russian airplanes from the mentee they're very very good pieces of kit can i ask you what we know about this flight i know it's early days and the father no passengers on board it appears to have been a big blessing but why given the fact i gather it's a budget airline budget airlines usually like to get as many people off on the planes as they can to fill the seats because time not being used all time the sky with no passengers on is making money why would they fly with no passengers on the . and i suspect that the clue is with the fact that this is a chasseur airline it does a lot of charter work and therefore it had a task

a chartered toss to carry people out to the czech republic that it didn't have a task to bring bring them back until probably a later date meanwhile i suspect the airline needed its aircraft back at base to do other work so i think you'll find out find that this was what's in the trade is called up positioning flight it was positioning the empty aircraft back to its base and one above an airport against one of the big three moscow airports mainly used for internal flights international flights don't they go from dollar debt ever in sheremetyevo but it's a very busy airports a very busy time of year what do we know about that from a pilot's point of view is it need the airport to use we already talked about the fact there's a road at the end of the runway. indeed know this there's no problem with this but the with the with the air for the runways long enough the weather wasn't particularly a problem there was some very light snow at the time but you know for anybody who operates in the moscow airport at this time of the year that shouldn't be

a problem. of course it does reduce the adhesive on the runway the braking efficiency of the airplane but the pilots of course have to and you know it's their job to make allowances and if braking action is not very good it when an aircraft goes up to the end of the runway like this it's almost always because the aircraft for some reason landed too fast which would be a case of misjudgment unless there was a technical reason and we haven't heard any invention yet or that the true again a misjudgment issue landed too far down the runway and therefore couldn't stop by the end of it so you know we we may well be looking at a misjudgment issue here unless there were technical problems the crew had to deal with that we have no news of yet if some engine problem would that have affected it because the engines often help with braking the way. the engines of course they can

say yes the engines can deploy reverse thrust off. mistily monitors the reason we've got is arcing we've got a rather awkward lines you know the lines broken up on skype but we did very well for the majority of it david lim operations safety editor for flight global magazine we thank you for your time thanks for much. this is r.t. thank you for being with us we're back with more news after this short break. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr vladimir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing

hundreds of kilometers of snow a wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies in that parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread larner doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in atlanta they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native new nets reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so a medical problem simply fixed here in the tent that i should say used to be but now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance are being treated the service costs

forty million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations landed near firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals for waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but vladimir is confident the diva now after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north. gallus taken some other international news now an international peace envoy for syria says there are only two directions now of the conflict

a political process or hell and russia's foreign minister is meeting with me in moscow said the syrian opposition refusal to talk with the government only pays the way for further bloodshed piskun offspring following the talks. the biggest stumbling block in the syrian conflict right now is that the opposition is rejecting any compromise saying strictly that president assad has to go while assad himself says he's not going anywhere he's protecting his country and moscow says nobody's able to persuade him to change his mind and neither side is willing to put its weapons down if. you know the only alternative is. really hands on a political process then we have all of us to work says innocently for a political process mr brahimi added that this should be a syrian allowed political process which should be based on the agreements reached by world powers in geneva and they include forming

a transitional government which could include all sides of the conflict but the opposition is not only unwilling to negotiate with the syrian authorities it's now rejecting direct talks with moscow which has been trying to be a mediator and we've heard from the leader of the recently established opposition coalition who demanded moscow to apologize for what she said was support for president assad if an emotional response i understand that mr hottie because probably not very experienced in politics if he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interests to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to all opposition forces but we start from the premises that they should not only think about their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and if they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy they should meet our representatives without preconditions on notice meanwhile the violence is continuing to ask syria there

have been more terrorist attacks the rebels have been also attacking states military air strips of wild government troops have been responding with more shelling. iran's navy is deployed in the strait of hormuz a key shipping route for one fifth of the world's oil and showcasing terrans military capabilities and maneuvers devised to test combat ship submarines reconnaissance and a new mid range missile to the drills come a growing pressure and sanctions against iran is nuclear program global diplomacy specialist. porridge says the purpose of the exercise is though is not to show still a t. but a readiness to defend the country's borders for the past thirty two years or war the west pacific the united states is waged a covert war against iran so you want has been preparing itself and demonstrating its keratin is to defend itself i don't believe that iran would ever take offensive action if we see more mabel military exercises right now it's because the media is

focusing on iran whereas in fact. earlier this month there was operation lucky mariner with twenty seven countries participating. although a lot of them were observer states and they were all the way in the persian gulf in iran as territory in the media was silent on this but when you run demonstrates his readiness to defend its sovereignty and its national interests then there is the media focus on iran. forget anonymity there's one place you need to use the internet not china we're talking about the new rules insisting every web surfer list use their real name online from now on. and courting controversy after five year legal battle belgian prosecutors are ready to charge the church of scientology with being a criminal organization. so it's

a moving story tonight. turbulent year for russian politics with a dream of putin's come back to the kremlin with big opposition rallies plus of course pussy riots infamous cathedral performance protests and the court case of followed that split russian society well here's how some of the r.t. staff including me who covered it all in two thousand and twelve recalled what happened. presidential election twenty three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and i mean you can of course live throughout the night here is

a great night was. the real color was right behind us was me but but so one point when putin came out to show me like crowds the way cost to move it thousands and thousands of people will celebrating his victory one of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place to that election work and protest rallies that never really feels like we're actually taking part in the event it was during one of the massive protest rallies in moscow square that it really fifty for the first time when i saw the crowd want to see the court right next to ours another station and i realized how soon was people really turned uncontrollable in the matter of a second and they'll come in just as easily chaos really quickly of people trying to get political points in the past twelve months. the best way to do that would be about. the one thing that was important to get across covering it is the

people's political flavor in this country what they did was deeply offensive to a huge number of people not something that. when they were looking at the case. when they made a press release about its our interview with president putin the first that he's ever given us he's a third inauguration we see dozens and dozens of calls from international media representatives and they were all asking us just one question did he say anything about the case nothing in fact the more challenging it is gauging the conversation would be of course not. a big list in my head i want to hear about his thoughts on the ongoing syrian conflict also whether the punishment the pussy riot punk band was indeed with hindsight maybe too heavy it's an interesting comments to make about that i would have thought about the russian opposition movement one of the big stories of the year the streets are available for protest. and i think it's good that people conscious about politics help politics is not

a big deal among most people here in this country would want to be given the chains can only be good for society and i think the saudis reacted with relatively well. we're going over the coming days as well more of the day's big news two clocks taken for the u.s. were to go see a chanson avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff again produced no result the republicans and democrats failed to reach a deal on how to best reduce the national deficit tax hikes and spending cuts with billions of dollars that automatically take effect on journey to first another round of talks for saturday barack obama's already considering an emergency bill for lower wages and the unemployed if agreement isn't reached before that line. six men involved in the gang rape of a student in india have been charged with murder just hours after the victim died in all spittal if convicted all could face the death penalty but case sparked protests in new delhi with the authorities resorting to banning mass gatherings in parts of the city people still joining to express their anger well demanding

extreme measures to keep the streets safe. and it's coming up to twenty five minutes past nine at night moscow time or to recap our main news story four people have been killed after a plane crashed into the side of one of moscow's main highways earlier on the sea evening four others were injured all of them are in a serious condition with head injuries the red wings flight from the czech republic overshot the runway at the city's vnukovo airport at half past four pm local time only eight people all of them crew members are thought to be on that plane which can if it's loaded with passengers carry two hundred the captain is among the dead tonight a criminal case has been launched in both flight recorders have been recovered from the scene we will of course keep you post as information continues to come through to us throughout the night here on r.t. international.

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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm laurin the store here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday december twenty first two thousand and twelve today is a good time to reflect on this. point. on the twenty first of this year. that will be today and the world didn't end i think it's fair to say so we will reflect on what may lie ahead in the coming new year reflect on this year in economic trends dave column is a cornell chemistry professor but he's known in finance for his annual year in review which is out today and he is here in studio to talk about it plus you west stocks drop as house republicans cancel a vote on the fiscal cliff political disarray stock markets those were how the

headlines read today when i came into work but is this just white noise we'll talk about signs of a broken market that go far beyond the day to day news purportedly moving them plus from market scandals to our very own we'll break down what you loved and hated this week and viewer feedback let's get to today's capital account. well the world didn't end today as some argue the mayan calendar predicted but this millennial error can at least teach us a thing or two about the pitfalls of prediction something fitting given the nature of financial forecasts and also fitting as our guest.